Monday this 21st.. Oct. 1805.
a CLEAR cold morning. we Set out eairly and proceeded
on as usal, untill about 8 oClock at which time we halted
at an Indian Camp where we bought Some wood and
cooked breakfast. bought Some pounded fish from the Natives
and Some roots bread which was made up in cakes in form
of ginger bread and eat verry well. Saw a nomber of Rackoon
Skins also otter and fisher Skins &c. they gave us any thing
we asked for by our giving any Small article we pleased we
proceeded on passed clifts of rocks and River hills on each Side
passed over Several verry bad rockey rapids, where the River
was nearly filled with high rocks of a dark coulour, and the
water divided in narrow deep channels, where we ran through
verry fast high waves and whorl pools below. passd. Several
Islands and fishing Camps where the natives had a large quantity
of pounded fish the best of their Sammon pounded up and
put up in Small Stacks along the Shore for winter, & cover
them with Straw and pile the Stone around them. the Solid
clifts continue on each Side. Saw a little Scattering pine timber
on the hills on each Side of the River. Some places the
rocks are high and Steep. we went about 32 miles and Camped
at Some Indian Camps on the Stard. Side. a handsom Spring
run from a clift of rocks near our Camp. we bought Some
wood from the Natives to cook with these natives appeer to
be mostly covd. in deer and Elk Some rabit & Squerrel Skins.
they have Some blew Cloth blankets &c. we passed a Small
River which came in on the Lard. Side.
